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Southerners especially must adapt to a different way of life and different societal norms. For some students, the gulf between Northern and Southern life causes culture shock...

Author: By Eric S. Barr and Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Worlds Apart: Why Harvard and the South Don't Get Along | 2/2/2000 | See Source »

Everson, who is also co-president of the Japan Society and public relations director for the Asian American Brotherhood, says that being half-Asian has given him "a better perspective on things," strengthened him as an individual, and allowed him to easily adapt to different groups...

Author: By Edward B. Colby, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Half-Asian Students Create A Club of Their Own | 1/7/2000 | See Source »

...training. The Chicago experiment will therefore be closely watched. A smaller program initiated in New York City last year, in which mathematics teachers were brought in from Austria, is getting high marks and was expanded this year. If the Chicago program shows similar success, educators expect Congress to adapt a wide-scale recruitment plan. Indeed, the U.S. actively recruits doctors, scientists and technology experts from abroad; why not raise the quality of the labor sector most often criticized by experts and parents alike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Teachers, the New Migrant Workers | 12/24/1999 | See Source »

Clinton moved quickly to adapt to the new conditions, keenly mindful of the fact that labor unions and environmental groups are crucial parts of the coalition that Al Gore hopes will take him to the White House. At two appearances the following day, Clinton departed from his prepared text to emphasize that it would be necessary from now on to explain to people more clearly the ways that trade benefited them and to open up the WTO so that its rulings were more legitimate in the eyes of the people they affected. "If the WTO expects to have public support...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rage Against The Machine | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

...answer, it turned out, was pretty simple: adapt another Stephen King prison drama...

Author: By By RICHARD Ho, | Title: A Man, a Mouse, a Mile, Panama | 12/10/1999 | See Source »

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